the presence of borrowing and lending constraints on that bond. In a US versus the rest of the world (RoW) scenario, we … consumption risk relative to the rest of the world, and therefore decreases its motives for precautionary asset holdings relative … to the rest of the world. As a result of these asymmetric shifts in countries’ barriers to capital mobility, the US runs …

output by 140 to 180% if it could adopt the world's best practice in the financial sector. Still, this amounts to only 34 to …